Kober, Franz Quirin von, German canonist and pedagogist, b. of simple countryfolk on 6 March 1821, at Warthausen, Biberach, Würtemberg; d Tubingen, 25 January, 1897. He first attended Latin school in the neighbouring town of Biberach, and subsequently, in accordance with the course prescribed for Catholic theologians of the Diocese « Rottenburg, entered the preparatory seminary at Ehingen on the Danube. From 1840 to 1844 he pursued his studies in the seminary (Wilhelmsstift) of Tubingen, and on 4 September, 1845, was ordained priest in Rottenburg. After only half a year’s activity in the cure of souls at Ulm, Franz Kober became a tutor - the seminary at Tubingen, and lectured on philology and the Pauline Epistles. From 1848 he taught canon law, to counteract the evil influence of the Josephinist professor Warnkonig, of the faculty of law, on which Catholic theological students even in Wiirtemberg had depended for their training in canon according to a custom existing in Austria since Joseph II. On 28 January, 1851, Kober became professor; extraordinary in the faculty of Catholic theology teaching pedagogy, didactics, and the Pauline Epistles He was appointed professor ordinary of canon and pedagogy on 8 September, 1857, having b professor extraordinary since 19 April, 1853. As he wrote with good historico-legal method some excellent works: “Der Kirchenbann” (1857); “Die — Suspension der Kirchendiener” (1862); “ Die Dep tion und Degradation” (1867). He also treated v. ous ecclesiastico-criminal subjects (“Das Interdikt “Die körperliche Ztichtigung als kirchliches Stra mittel gegen Kleriker und Mönche”; “ Die Gefang strafe gegen Kleriker und Mönche”; “ Die Geldstrafen: im Kirchenrecht”) in a series of essays, the majority being lengthy treatises, published in the “ Archiv katholisches Kirchenrecht” and especially in the “Theologische Quartalschrift” of Tubingen. In the last-named periodical appeared other essays on canon law (“Der Ursprung und die rechtliche Stellung der Generalvikare”; “Der Einfluss der Kirche und ihrer Gesetzgebung auf Gesittung, Humanität und Zivilisation tion”; “ Medizin und Kirchenrecht”; “ Die Residenz-pflicht- — pflicht der Kirchendiener bei feindlichen Verfolgungen und ansteckenden Krankheiten”) and many — book-reviews. Kober was also a frequent contributor to the first and second edition of the Freiburg ∗ Kirchenlexikon”.
Sagmuller, Theolog. Quartalschr., UX XX (1897), 569 sqq.
Johannes Baptist Sägmüller.